Yellowed from one hundred eighty-four years, the paper unfolds with a pungent, almost yeasty smell. Ink, now walnut brown, spreads line after line across the long, creased sheet. When pen touched this page, the roads west of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains were detestable. Neither railroad nor canal connected Greene County stock and crops to eastern metropolitan markets. Small farms dotted … Continue reading The House that Jacob Built
Jacob Myers
The Old Minor Home Farm: Those Places Thursday
My mother and three siblings pose here on the dining room steps with their mother, Kerma Minor. The white painted-brick farmhouse was surrounded by 330 acres of rolling hills studded by her daddy's prized cows. This was my mother's home, Ceylon Lane, Greene Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania--where the Donald Minor family weathered the Depression and World … Continue reading The Old Minor Home Farm: Those Places Thursday
Shoots, Roots, and Leaves 